It’s interesting. Moses Itauma, over the course of a 40-minute conversation, does not seem as cold as he once did. Yet the 20-year-old still touts a detached mindset as important for success – and peace. “What makes me happy?” he asks. “I don’t really know, I don’t chase happiness. I feel like a lot of people are too enslaved to their emotions, and that’s where problems come. I’m disciplined to what I’ve got to do.”
Itauma, perhaps the most exciting heavyweight prospect in years, might have worked on coming across slightly more gently. Indeed, he told The Independent earlier this year: “I watch my interviews and think... ‘Ah, I shouldn’t have said that. Ah, I should be smiling.’ When I first turned professional, I wanted to be unapproachable. But I [started] thinking: ‘I look like a proper pr***.’”
